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The Welsh version of the Grail legend, translated from the French. One of the best preserved of medieval Welsh manuscripts. The text comprises: ‘Y keis’, derived from La Queste del Saint Graal (ff. 1-109 verso), printed from this manuscript in Ystoryaeu Seint Greal, ed. Thomas Jones (Cardiff, 1992), followed by the Welsh version of Perlesvaus (ff. 110-280 verso). The junction is recorded on f. 109 verso: ‘Ac uelly y teruyna y rann gyntaf or greal. nyt amgen nor keis. Bellach dywedadwy yỽ o rann gwalchmei. ac o anturyeu y milwyr ual y kyfaruu ac ỽynt’. The only lacuna in the text is in quire 18 (see collation). The text of both parts is printed in Y Seint Greal: Selections from the Hengwrt MSS, ed. Robert Williams (London, 1876). All written in the hand of Hywel Fychan ap Hywel Goch, no doubt for his patron, Hopcyn ap Tomas, probably earlier than Jesus College Oxford, MS 111 (datable post-1382), since the awdl by Dafydd y Coed in that book refers to Hopcyn’s book of the Greal.

A mid 15th century text of Ystoria Dared.
The end of the text is missing.

A text entitled Yr Ynys Ddynol neu Erlyn Cyfreithlon yn Erbyn Pechod yn Sir Dynol Ryw, being a Welsh translation of a work by Richard Bernard of Batcombe, Somerset.
There are also two poems by the translator, who has signed his initials 'P [or B or D] Ll'.

A manuscript apparently in the hand of Wiliam ap Howel comprising the Welsh alphabet and a translation of [John] Mayer's short catechism by Wiliam ap Howel.

The Lucidarius; Ymborth yr Enaid; a text concerning the nine grades of angels; Epoptes; and other texts in the hand of Sir Thomas Wiliems, 1594.
There are fragments (two vellum leaves) in Latin from a [?15th century] service book.

A collection of Welsh words and phrases glossed in Latin and Latin words glossed in Welsh; the Pumed Lyfyr Geiryd; lists of verbs; names of furniture items; and other texts.
The first 143 pages were copied by John Jones, Gellilyfdy from Roger Morris in 1606.

A modern transcript by Richard Thomas of Gossymdaith Llefoed Wynebclawr, Englynion yr Eryr, Englynion y Clyweid, Eiry mynydd, Cyvoessi Myrddin and others; and Englynion y Beddau from the book of Sir T. Williams, which was compared with a book by W. Salesbury of Llanrwst, 1776.
The first 54 pages contain the text, followed by 26 blank pages; after which there is a sketch of Isallt, near Penmorfa, which was the home of Dr Gruffudd Roberts in 1782.

The set of historical texts: Ystoria Dared (ff. 1-17, cols 1-66); Brut y Brenhinedd (ff. 17 verso-89, cols 67-441) and Brut y Tywysogion (ff. 89 verso-143, cols 443-665); followed by Brut y Saeson (ff. 143-145 verso, cols 665-76), breaking off abruptly in the year 979. All are very close to the corresponding texts in the Red Book of Hergest [see Brut y Tywysogyon: Red Book of Hergest Version, ed. and trans. Thomas Jones (Cardiff, 1955), pp. xxviii-xxix, and Studia Celtica, 12/13 (1977/78), 176]. All are written in two columns by the Red Book scribe, X91, with 2- and 3-line initials in red. Lacunae due to the loss of leaves 1 and 10 in quire 5, the whole of original quire 9, leaves 5 and 6 of quire 17, and the final quire. On the erratic foliation, see below; J. Gwenogvryn Evans numbered the columns allowing, however, in his numeration for the columns that would have been in lacunae. The text of the original f. 1 made good by a hand of [16-17 cent.] on a supplied leaf (f. 1). Headings in textura by a hand of [15 cent.] (e.g. ff. 59 verso, 87); annotation and textual correction by several hands of [15 cent.] and [16 cent.] (e.g. ff. 41 recto-verso and 93, ff. 79 and 82, ff. 94 verso and 114 verso, f. 56, f. 123 verso, ff. 127 verso and 135 verso). Rebound in [16-17 cent.]; at this rebinding quires were signed I-XVII, skipping a number somewhere between VII and XI (= quire 10).

Transcripts of records relating to North Wales, being the text of the Additamenta printed in The Record of Caernarvon, 1837, pp. 296-303, from Harleian MS 4776.

Transcripts of wills and other documents (with a few original records) and pedigrees of Welsh families by W. W. E. Wynne, Peniarth. The volume contains an index.

A Spanish vocabulary in the hand of John Jones, Gellilyfdy, dated 30 April 1645.